2005 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript
This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2005. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.
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Is RNA generated during transcription from the DNA, or is there a molecule already present that receives the copy of the DNA and thus becomes mRNA?
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Heidi Parker, Ph.D.: RNA is generated during transcription from individual nucleotides available in the nucleus. Transcriptional proteins take the nucleotides and connect them together in a particular sequence matching the DNA sequence that is being read. |
| Peter O'Hagan, wellesley ON |
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